On 2011-01-17 4:58 PM, Javier de Miguel RodrÃguez wrote:
We are now running dovecot 2.0.9 with indexes in a ram disk and maildir storage in a test system. We have the following questions:
- If there is a power outage / kernel crash, we will lose thecontent of ramdisk. We have tested that indexes are regenerated when a user logs in via imap, so e-mail access will be "slower" after a power outage / kernel crash, but everything should work as expected (TM). Are we missing something?
If this is a heavy use box, having everyone's indexes being rebuilt at the same time could bring it to its knees...
Since this is a server I'm sure you have adequate power protection (UPS), so only extended power outages might be an issue - but then you should also have it configured to safely shut down in this event, no?
But anyway, yes, the indexes will be rebuilt and everything should continue working...
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Best regards,
Charles